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Monday, August 6, 2012

6 August - Blogs I'm Following

*Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar was last seen being bombed.* The Saudi leadership has broken its silence. The internal crisis is officially over. All is well in the House of Saud. The partying can cont...

* Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what one government official compared to a 'prehistoric invasion'. * Greece h...

* Two children, aged three and two, have died from apparent heat stroke after being left in a locked car for more than an hour.* Three-year-old Daniel Marise and her two-year-old sister Savannah were foun...

* While residents of a quiet Oklahoma town sifted through their charred belongings after flames ravaged their community, police say they are investigating if the fire could have been deliberately set.* Th...

* A lawyer shot dead his own sister in the middle of a courtroom because she had 'brought shame' on the family for marrying a man they disapproved of, it has emerged. * In an honour killing that has shocke...

*Activist Post* Never before has the New World Order been exposed to the degree that Shepard Ambellas and Jason Bermas do in the film *SHADE the Motion Picture*. Once again the elites have something to fe...

* A crazed man set his girlfriend alight on a chair and left her fighting for her life before going on a city-wide crime spree, police said.* Officers in Lakeland, Florida, said the alarm was raised on Fri...

* On the same day NASA makes a historic encounter with Mars, one of Man's earliest rockets is setting it's own truly historic record.* In the last week, Voyager 1, which floated into the heavens in 1977, h...

* An Italian newspaper owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused controversy by printing a front page headline which said 'Fourth Reich' above a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel...

* Two friends who went backpacking across Vietnam collapsed and died within days of one another from a mystery poison.* Canadian-born Cathy Huynh, 26, who taught English in South Korea, decided to take a ...

* TSA screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport lost a woman who reportedly tested positive for explosives on Sunday and only put the airport on lock-down when she boarded a flight to Cleveland, Oh...

* Chicago is mourning one of its most talented children's surgeons today, after he died while trying to save the lives of two young boys.* Dr Donald Liu, 50, drowned in Lake Michigan as he went to help the...

* Computerized trading problems aren't unique to the United States apparently. The main stock market in Spain was halted Monday for nearly 5 hours due to a "technical glitch," according to the index operat...

* Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Militants killed a driver of a container truck carrying supplies for NATO in Pakistan's tribal region on Monday, a government official told CNN.* Three gunmen in a car opene...

* (CNN) -- American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo has been thrown out of the Olympics after a failed drug test he blamed on inadvertently eating food that had been baked with marijuana.* The 23-year-old has b...

Sent to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 6 Educators are always interested in improving teacher evaluation, and Anne Faigen’s comments (“Evaluating teachers is not so easy,” August 5) are helpful. Her ...

PM was only in office since June 2012 - had been planning "defection" for at least as long based on battlefield before "Damascus Volcano" fizzled. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 6, 2012* - Hailed by the Wes...

Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* While a compromised version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced to the Senate in July, the false claims of “. . . foreign governments, criminal...

* Before their wedding ceremony begins in rural Afghanistan, a 40-year-old man sits to be photographed with his 11-year-old bride. The girl tells the photographer that she is sad to be engaged because she...

Lunch at the pool yesterday, courtesy of CharrissaI've always known there were exceptional young people doing volunteer work in the challenged countries of the world, but it's been heartening to see so man...

* Standard Chartered has been accused of leaving the US financial system vulnerable to terrorists, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes by "scheming" with the Iranian government to conduct secret transactions...

This image is an absolute eye-opener. We think of Earth as the Blue Planet, literally covered in water - fresh, saltwater or frozen. So, just how much water do we really have to go around? This much:...

Billionaire Ted Turner is outspoken about the state of our Earth, and he puts his money where his mouth is on a scale that shames many affluent countries. His message is plain, we can no longer ignore ...

No. No matter how it reads, the righties are not awakening from a bad (rage-inspired) theocrat-centric dream and willing to redo the last 30 years of religious American Talibanism to reclaim their integrit...

* Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) -- An Army veteran who neighbors say played in a far right punk band was the lone shooter in the rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people and wounded four, ...

* Fighter jets scream in an almost vertical dive unleashing bombs and machine gun rounds into the heart of Aleppo. * The noise and the percussion waves from the explosions are sickening. Day and night. He...

* The London-listed Standard Chartered bank has been accused of violating US laws by conducting more than £160bn worth of secret transactions with Iranian entities.* Officials in New York state said a ban...

In the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1902 between 12.2 and 29.3 million died of famine in India. In the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1900 between 19.5 and 30 million died of famine in China. In the same period, a...

* The Deputy PM has said he was dropping Lords reform after David Cameron told him Tory MPs were not prepared to support changes.* Nick Clegg said that the Tories had "broken the contract" between the coa...

One of the things that drives me crazy is naked Barbies. I swear the first thing kids do is strip Barbie down to immodesty and then they leave her laying around. We had a rule in our house, if Barbie end...

according to Russian Scientists, and this applies to both natural bodies (asteroids) and artificial bodies (Voyager), NOTHING ever leaves our Solar System. Just keep in mind that the recent MILITARY ALERT...

The wingnuts are now demanding that Romney pick Ryan as his running-mate. Ryan, far more than Romney, has won the... well, hearts and minds of the Republican faithful and has set the agenda. Amazing that...

Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page ironically belonged to a rock band named "End Apathy." If you can't suss out why that's so ironic, then perhaps you shouldn't be reading this. But if you're endowed ...

Goodbye Holocene, hello Anthropocene. The Holocene epoch of the past 12,000 years is said to be giving way to a new epoch, one in which man will be the key shaper, hence the name "Anthropo - cene." The...

Kevin Drum had an item yesterday about "Obamacare" -- the name of the program, not the program. He concludes: [I]f ACA eventually becomes popular, then Obamacare will be a positive term. If it fails, then...

*I forgot what I was going to type.... * "Maine a case study in medical marijuana; Legal access viewed as a plus, and also with some alarm" by Jenifer B. McKim | Globe Staff, August 05, 2012 MONTVILLE,...

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America. ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 9%. COSTELLO: That many people are out of work? ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%. COSTELLO: You just said 9...

Accused killer Jared Lee Loughner is prepared to plead guilty on Tuesday for the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to...

NYTimes The Barclays settlement prompted the resignation of top executives, including the chief executive, Robert E. Diamond Jr., and helped to erase more than $3 billion of the bank’s market value.Major...

Yo, yo, check it out..Barack Obama’s “African American Education Initiative” creates a new Federal bureaucracy. One of its goals will be to stop disciplinary action against black public school students w...

http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6282 I noticed in Arnie Gundersen's video with Helen Caldicott (linked above) that no data about the status of unit 3 have been released; Gundersen says unit 3 is the wo...

Phil Arena has been playing around with alternative measures of military power. He begins with the straightforward observation that one current and popular measure of military power, the CINC scores in th...

My Catbird Seat Stuart Littlewood *As the “political prostitution season” hots up, are Americans in the mood for another Israel-first Commander-in-Chief?* *Who is this Dan Senor, the organizer of Presi...

"US bid to return salmon to Connecticut River ends" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, August 05, 2012 *I'm more worried about the cancer leaking into it from **Vermont Yankee**, but I suppose that's a differ...

*MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012* *Teen-ager learns what counts:* On Saturday, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the women’s 100. Unless you bought Sunday's Washington Post! On page one of Sports, above the f...

Govt Slaves (Mike Masnick) We recently wrote about the fight over copyright/fair use in political videos. In the comments, someone anonymous pointed us to a YouTube page including a typical takedown no...

Global Research Michel Chossoduvsky The Obama administration, in liaison with London, Paris, Tel Aviv and NATO headquarters in Brussels, is mulling over various military "intervention options" directed a...

Dees Illustration Justin Gross, *Contributor* *Activist Post* All of the new vaccines are DNA vaccines which contaminate normal human DNA with patented GMOs, just as Monsanto has been doing to organic fie...

(reprinted from may 7, 2009) [NOTE: If anyone is interested, this is post #500 in the Globalove Think Tank!] Before I start, let me say that in writing about the Taliban, I am not indicting the Muslim c...

*Brunswick News Inc. v. Sears,* 2012 CanLII 42254 is a recent and useful case outlining the law regarding constructive dismissal: *Constructive Dismissal* [9] Whether or not there is a constructive dism...

The other day at Huffington Post, school privatization advocate, Kevin Chavous, gave a “shout out” to KIPP, Inc., the nation’s largest corporate chain of charter schools and certainly the most popular hi...

[image: Thousands, perhaps millions of fish like these from a Missouri pond are dying in the U.S. Midwest as the 2012 summer heat dries up rivers and lakes. Iowa DNR officials said the sturgeon found dea...

Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Police in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, are calling the shooting at a Sikh temple an act of domestic terrorism – although no details or other possible motives have bee...

*MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012* *Epilogue—But he doesn’t say nearly enough:* Should the New York Times be giving more coverage to Mitt Romney’s tax proposal? Actually, yes, it should. The truth has been clear fo...

Happy Birthday to Romola Garai, 30. Excellent in The Hour, which is well worth your time, but you probably knew that. You'll also want to watch her in Branagh's woefully underseen As You Like It. The goo...

A must read for everyone!!!! PRIVATIZATION AS A PHONY PANACEA Privatization is almost always promoted as a way to save money, improve services, and shake up unaccountable bureaucracies. But in reality, ...

Limited government – one of the goals for ALEC. Steal tax dollars and make sure they aren’t available for other governmental uses – is definitely one way to make sure that government gets limited. No tax ...

*They are the giants of the deep, but when a pair of humpback whales surfaced near Sydney Harbour they had a painful shock as an early morning ferry collided with them.* Eyewitnesses say the migrating pai...

* Syria's Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has been sacked amid rumours he had defected with his family to neighbouring nation Jordan.* The former agriculture minister was only handed his post by President Bash...

* A pair of lions began foaming at the mouth and became critically ill after being 'poisoned' by a visitor at Berlin's famous zoo.* Aru and Aketi were spotted foaming at the mouth five days ago and stopped...

* A mother and father who repeatedly punched their daughter while screaming 'vile' racist insults because they said she had 'brought shame' on their family by dating a black man have been jailed.* David a...

* BEIJING — An explosion at an illegal workshop in eastern China has killed 13 people. * The official Xinhua News Agency said Monday another 14 people were hurt in Sunday’s blast in Wenzhou city in Zhejian...

Lawrence Marin takes a little time and space this morning to rebut the theocons who were outraged when he asked whether the prime minister's religious faith influences his policies -- or lack of them. M...

Organized crime figure Sheldon Adelson is now the #1 biggest donor to the Mitt Romney campaign and to the Republican Party. He also gave unprecedented $5 million dollar bribes-- walking around money-- to ...

KIPP, Inc. has joined forces with the most corrupt and ruthless charter school operator that Philadelphia has to offer, in a takeover bid for large chunks of one of the most vulnerable school communities i...

again and more - coming to your state legislature - courtesy of the 2012 ALEC Annual Meeting just held in Salt Lake City. Found this blog enty about South Dakota ALEC Senator Dan Lederman *Lederman Loves ...

* LUANDA, ANGOLA (BNO NEWS) -- Twenty-three fans of Angolan football club Kabuscorp were killed Saturday and dozens more were injured when their bus overturned near the capital Luanda, state-run radio repo...

* Several flood alerts across Britain remain in place after the UK experienced heavy rainfalls during the weekend, which caused a landslip of soil, rocks and debris with many homes being flooded in knee-de...

* The Emerald Isle is reporting its first ever case of the rodent borne virus in a German visitor earlier this year. Human Hantavirus infection has not previously been diagnosed in Ireland.* According to ...

image source Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* On August 3, The General Assembly ignored rule of law principles. Member states are sworn to uphold them. It passed a non-binding Syrian resol...

* Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.* The broadcast showed some of the s...

*Note: Richard Tol, an economist at the University of Sussex, has a new paper out on carbon taxes, with important implications for policy. He graciously agreed to write up this guest post with an overvie...

* (Reuters) - Egypt branded Islamist gunmen who killed 16 police near the Israeli border as "infidels" and promised on Monday to launch a crackdown following the massacre that strained Cairo's ties with bo...

"College for working women faces closure over deficit of $250,000" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, July 19, 2012 The Urban College of Boston, a two-year school that educates working women from low-incom...

* The grandmother of missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp has made a plea for the child to contact her family and "come home".* Police have said they are becoming increasingly worried about the girl who disappea...

image source James Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* With the odd purchases of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security I decided to see what else they have purchased. To my surprise a solicit...

image source: extremetech Nicholas West *Activist Post* Literature, TV, and movies have always had among them cautionary tales of science and technology gone wild; whether it is the technology itself that...

*Erasing David* David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself unde...

* A Government unpaid work programme criticised as "forced labour" has been ruled lawful by the High Court. * Jobless graduate Cait Reilly's claim that a back-to-work-scheme requiring her to work for free ...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA at a depth of 67.3 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:50:02 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) West from El V...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 316 km (195.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:31:26 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47.7 miles) East of Makubetsu,...

*President Bashar al Assad appointed the former agriculture minister as prime minister in June, following elections in May. * Syrian state television is reporting that Hijab's dismissal follows unconfirmed...

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy<* It was in January, 2002 that the UN Committee Against Torture condemned the treatment of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib by noting that 'indefinite detention' was a ...

*Power grids, communications and satellites could be knocked out by a massive solar storm in the next two years, scientists warn. * Experts say the sun is reaching a peak in its 10-year activity cycle, pu...

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* GOP dogma goes like this: government regulation is excessive, a drag on the economy, an impediment to growth. For the GOP that's a 'given', an article of faith! Re...

During the weekend, I was informed by a Facebook contact of mine who lives on the Indian subcontinent that Pakistan is excited by the invention by Agha Waqar Ahmad, an engineer, who has "managed, by the gr...

* Heavy showers and thunderstorms have brought flash flooding to parts of Yorkshire as forecasters predict more unsettled weather. * Flood alerts still remain in place in at least 13 areas of the UK, mostly...

* Several Pakistani police officers have been suspended after they were accused of parading a couple naked in public.* According to witnesses, police in the Sindh town of Gambat forced the man and woman t...

* China is bracing for a record third typhoon in a week after two powerful storms over the weekend left at least 14 people dead and large areas under water.* Over 1.24 million people were evacuated from a...

*Hillary Clinton and her team of crack security agents were driven onto a plane and out of Malawi after being attacked by a swarm of bees today.* The U.S. Secretary of State was due to depart from the sou...

* China's state-run media ramped up condemnation of the United States on Monday over tensions in the South China Sea, with the Communist Party's top newspaper telling Washington to "Shut up".* The Chinese...

* A man has died after falling overboard from a ferry bound for the Northern Isles.* Aberdeen Coastguard received a call at about 20:20 on Sunday to say a man had fallen from the MV Hjaltland, which opera...

* (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto churned across the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, regaining some strength even as forecasters expect it to grow more powerful and emerge as a Category 1 hurricane in the next ...

* It comes after an Italian newspaper splashed its front page on a photo of Angela Merkel with her arm raised and the headline "Quarto Reich". * Meanwhile, in an op-ed in Germany's Bild Romano Prodi, a form...

The big news this morning is coming from an interview Italy's Mario Monti gave to German magazine Der Spiegel, in which he warned that growing Italian resentment against Germany risks the break up of not ...

*A bomb blast rocked Syrian state television headquarters in the heart of Damascus wounding several people on Monday just two days after the army said it had seized the last rebel-held area of the capital...

* Israel says it has found the bodies of eight gunmen who attacked a checkpoint on the border with Egypt, killing 16 Egyptian policemen. * The heavily armed attackers had captured a border post at Rafah, c...

* * *The floodgates are cracked now and the flow will not be stopped*. Michael channeled by Ron Head August 5, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages As another marker of your progress approaches, and the ch...

*Found this at Rumor Mill News, I am not a Iraqi Dinar bug so I don't follow these sort of blogs much. Given Poof's comment about something big happened Saturday night, there might be something to thi...

*(CNN) -- Turkish forces have killed 115 Kurdish rebels since launching a security operation in southeastern Turkey late last month, the country's interior minister said Sunday, according to the semi-offi...

*(Reuters) - "After you." "No, after you." The euro zone is inching towards a new plan to tackle its debt crisis in a three-dimensional game of chicken among all the main players.* The European Central ...

*(Financial Times) -- A political row has erupted in Athens after the former head of a big Greek state bank admitted to transferring €8m of personal savings abroad to buy a London property months before h...

(CNN) -- The battle for Syria's most populous city raged and intensified Sunday, with heavy shelling in Aleppo, according to opposition activists. The Syrian regime used warplanes in the siege, they said. ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck CENTRAL CALIFORNIA at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:35:49 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) Northwest of from Parkfield...

*Archeologists who discovered thousands of skeletons in a mass London grave believe they were the victims of a 13th Century volcanic eruption which took place thousands of miles away.* The remains were f...

The BBC/Guardian/Independent narrative is that those nasty Israelis (for which you can really read Jews) are making life impossible for the Christians living in Gaza. I found this little piece hidden away ...

panorama courtesy of Chris Kotsiopoulos I was looking for a single image to exemplify my NEW DISCOVERY and this one from Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos seems to fit the bill. What's your new disco...

* The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Nethe...

*A battery charge against actor Cuba Gooding Jr has been dropped after the bartender involved said she did not want to proceed.* The Oscar winner faced the charge after an incident on Tuesday at Old Absi...

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:06 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) SSW of Boley, Oklahoma No Reports of D...

What Work Is Light For Each ONE To Do And Where? Dear ONEs, ~~ *** ((((( --- A - L - O - H - A --- ))))) *** ~~ Shared this is from The HEART-LIGHT of ALL, of The Polishing of The DIAMOND YOU are, ea...

I just spent two hours by watching NASA TV that covered the landing of the Curiosity Rover, the cleverest part of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), on Mars. The landing maneuvers (those "7 minutes of ...

Source of Photo: http://wellesleytudorpole.com/page2.htm The Sphinx – Memories by Major Wellesley Tudor Pole – 1919. Some of you will have seen this before but I felt to share this with you once more b...

The Arab and Moslem world has been persuaded to destroy itself. *1.* On 5 August 2012, fifteen Egyptian soldiers were killed in the Sinai in Egypt. Sinai attack proves Islamist terrorists are targeting E...

There are lots of plants and animals living on the earth; but, there are still many to be found. Scientists tend to look for new species on coral reefs and sea floors which are rich sources of life. The ...

*Police are failing to investigate crimes committed by ethnic minorities because they fear being branded racist, a report claims. * A pamphlet by think-tank Civitas, released today, says pressure to show ...

Aspiring to be a cabin boy to the big shots, an unnamed Globe and Mail reporter scans the horizon for news. Actual Globe reporters may not be as snappily dressed as illustrated, or willing to climb as high...

*This dramatic video captures the moment a two-storey house in India collapsed as cloudbursts wreaked havoc - with the building disappearing from sight in just six seconds.* A camera filmed residents on ...

Allan is in the midst of a giant Stephen King reading and writing project, and in honour of that, I'm reading my *first ever* book by Stephen King. From this post, I was moved to read the novella *The B...

*Thousands - perhaps millions - of various types of fish, some endangered, have died in the Midwest, as record summer temperatures dry up rivers and raise water temperatures in some spots to nearly 100 de...

*A three-year-old girl bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake while playing on her daycare center's playground is recovering. * Sarah Lawson's grandfather said the girl was playing outside the Sunny Daze centre in...

* Jared Lee Loughner is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday in the 2011 shooting attack that left six people dead and 13 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, injured in Tucson, Arizona, acco...

*An Ohio man shot his of 45 years in her hospital bed as she recovered from a life-threatening illness in the intensive care unit, police say. * Barbara Wise, 65, survived the gunshot wound and is in criti...

*The son of a man who allegedly faked his own death fears his father is coming to kill him after his stepmother claimed she found e-mails between the two that detailed the scheme. * Jonathan Roth said tha...

*Columbus Crew midfielder Kirk Urso died early Sunday morning at a central Ohio hospital without a cause of death known, a county coroner said.* Urso, 22, was rushed by ambulance from a downtown Columbus ...

*A wealthy former yacht dealer has snapped up every foreclosed home in Michigan's Macomb County, paying the cut price of $4.9million for a whopping 645 properties. * Bill McMachen handed over a measly $7,...

*Police have evacuated part of a Milwaukee suburb as they search for evidence in Sunday's deadly gun massacre at a Sikh temple. * Officials are concentrating their search on a home in Cudahy, Wisconsin be...

*Like his idol Tony Blair before him, David Cameron's watchword is modernisation. Well, there is one thing in need of a major overhaul - and that is the British economy.* Reportedly, Dave is beginning to...

*Usain Bolt** achieved his aim of becoming a sporting legend on Sunday as he parched to the second-fastest 100 meters ever seen, a wonderful 9.63 seconds, to become the first man to win back to back Olym...

*Foreign powers have been urged to take action to prevent Syria turning into a bloodbath on a scale seen in notorious conflicts in Bosnia or Rwanda. * UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon drew a comparison bet...

*An experienced surfer was savaged by a shark in the Indian Ocean when he ignored warnings not to enter the water at sunset. * The French man, believed to be in his 40s, suffered horrific injuries during ...

*The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple may have been acting on behalf of a violent race hate group, police sources said.* The shooter, who has not been identified, was covered in tattoos which...

*After the wettest April for a century and a wash-out June and July, most were hoping August would signal the arrival of summer. * But the topsy-turvy weather had other ideas at the weekend, with heavy ra...

*The Syrian army claims it has seized the last rebel-held strongholds in the capital, Damascus, as regime forces continue to bombard the northern city of Aleppo.* A brigadier general, who did not give hi...

I don't have a dog, which makes me sad. I grew up with dogs, first Princess and then Autumn Haze. Now I travel too much to have one. But I love dogs and every morning I go for a hike and bring a pocketfu...

*DEHRADUN/JAMMU: The ITBP and the local police on Sunday searched the remains of flattened homes for more bodies in rain-hit Uttarakhand where the toll due to relentless downpour reached 34. * "In Uttark...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN at a depth of 36.6 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:28:22 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) South from Kag...

* Flood alerts remain in place after heavy rain caused flooding and disruption in some areas on Sunday.* A flood warning is in place for Brough Beck at Catterick, North Yorkshire, with 26 flood alerts acr...

*BEIRUT—Iran has requested help from Turkey and Qatar to secure the release of 48 Iranians captured over the weekend in the Syrian capital by rebels who insist the group are undercover spies and not innoc...

*How will the attack affect the ties between Egypt and Israel, in light of the already weak relations with the new Egyptian government. * Sunday night's attack of the Egyptian military post and cross-border...

*WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday denounced the shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin as a "senseless act of violence," and expressed condolences f...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 56 km (34.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:11 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (19.4 miles) Southeast...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 55.7 km (34.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:40:48 UTC Sunday 5th August 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) South of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami War...

We are now constantly being bombarded by pure and utter BS via the liars in the Jewish controlled mainstream media about the situation in Syria. We are constantly being fed stories about "atrocities" bein...

*Envoys were due to sign a declaration backing the Palestinians ahead of their planned campaign to win recognition as a state at the UN.* A meeting of envoys from the Non-Aligned Movement due to convene in...

U.S. to resume beef imports from Japan after two-year ban http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/u-s-to-resume-beef-imports-from-japan-after-two-year-ban [excerpted] The United States will restar...

*And it is such a good day to go to the beach. * "Sitting in the sun, watching the waves roll in, and popping the top on a cold one would seem to be as much a part of the American summer as hot dogs and c...

*Here’s the news on tonight’s meeting from our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group:* Hi everyone, Here are some questions to ponder before this evening's discussion: - Why do people in shant...

You have an intuitive sense of the wonder that you will experience August 5, 2012 by John Smallman August promises to be an exhilarating month for you as the essential changes leading up to your awak...

*Focus on the magnificent spirit of these games.* 08/05/2012 by John Smallman Humanity is waking up! Friendship and respect are flowing across the planet as never before because so many are taking a...

Okay, so maybe I should call this the weekly Dharapak. Either way this is my pick for photo of the week. Charles has this knack for capturing the perfect moment. I call it: "Romney looking longingly at his...

*That is one of the intriguing things about Islam: you rarely read or hear about a pooper-pumping priest or rabbi.* "Cleric gets jail for public indecency CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced an *ultracons...

*What I remember about Cockburn is when I was a subscriber to the Nation some 20 years ago he pooh-poohed Oliver Stone's JFK. I soon dropped the subscription. * "Alexander Cockburn, leftist writer known f...

*Sorry, Judge Bacharach, but despite the supposed strong support of your Oklahoma home-state loons (the wackiest duo in the Senate), you won't be filling that vacancy on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals t...

*The downfall of the temple of "news" is coming.* "It seems that reality doesn’t mean all that much when the Western media talk about Syria." - German journalist *Manuel Ochsenreiter*. "The Western me...

The Olympics is a fish out of today’s politically-correct water, says Michael Hurd, which is probably why it’s such compelling viewing: because “the Olympics represent the exact opposite of everything po...

* This is my article yesterday in TV5's news portal, http://www.interaksyon.com/business/39513/fat-free-economics-population-decontrol-not-rh-bill --------- A big population is often blamed as the cause of ...

"India’s top court bans tourism in tiger parks" by Nirmala George | Associated Press, July 25, 2012 NEW DELHI — India’s top court banned tourism in tiger reserves across the country Tuesday in a ruling ...

*Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti has warned of a "psychological break-up" of Europe that must be contained.* In an interview with Germany's der Spiegel magazine on Sunday, he said the eurozone crisis ...

*One of the most daring space missions ever undertaken is nearing Mars.* In the next few hours Nasa will attempt to land its one-tonne Curiosity rover on the Red Planet to study the possibility that this ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at a depth of 71.4 km (44.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:24 UTC Sunday 5th August 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Southwest of Sanchez...

Enbridge Muscle in Michigan This is what happens when you don't play ball with Enbridge. You wind up with a couple of armed guards on your property - just in case. Livingstone county farmer, Keith Huf...

With the weight of government behind them, the London Olympic Games Organising Committee (LOGOC) has been as officious with advertising Londoners as the International Rugby Board (IRB) was with advertisin...

HAVANA (AP) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said about 3,000 fish have been found dead on the Petit Jean River near Blue Mountain Lake. The commission said the fish kill was located near the Logan-...

*FLORENCE, Ariz. — Four inmates from the Arizona State Prison Complex Eyman in Florence are hospitalized with suspected botulism poisoning.* Pinal County authorities say the source is believed to be contr...

*(Reuters) - Israel said a group of militants who tried to storm its border on Sunday had commandeered two Egyptian vehicles and driven them through a crossing on the Egyptian-Israeli border.* One of the...

*(Reuters) - Across the bay of Naples from Pompeii, where thousands were incinerated by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, lies a hidden "super volcano" that could kill millions in a catastrophe many times worse, s...

“Hey kids, spelling is important. Look! The difference between won and one: New Zealand have just won gold. Australia have just one gold.” [Hat tip Cat in the Bush] PS: Even on a medals-per-capita basis...

*JERUSALEM — Israel has upgraded its top-tier Arrow II missile defense, a Defense Ministry official confirmed Sunday, as the country girds for possible attacks from Iran and Syria.* Sensors, command and ...

*In India*: "Bhopal Games assail Dow Chemical" July 27, 2012 BHOPAL, India — Dozens of giggling children in wheelchairs or limping on twisted limbs raced for gold Thursday in their own *Special Olympics*o...

*China’s Foreign Ministry has called in a senior US diplomat to protest against remarks by the US State Department raising concerns over tensions in the contested South China Sea, further intensifying an ...

[image: A growing problem: A large number of jellyfish polyps are observed along the coast of Ise Bay, 4 August 2012. CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO. / CHUNICHI SHIMBUN] By Chunichi Shimbun 4 August 2012 Larg...

*Unidentified gunmen have attacked a checkpoint on the Egyptian-Israeli border, killing at least 13 Egyptian policemen, officials say.* Israel said the heavily armed attackers, in two vehicles, then tried...

Palestinians in Syria "are not allowed to vote or hold Syrian passports." Moreover, they cannot "stand for parliament or other political offices. Palestinians are barred from buying farmland and prohibit...

Toronto Star Film critics have rightly picked up on a disturbing message in the latest instalment of Christopher Nolan’s hugely popular Dark Knight series of Batman movies. Fascism, the film suggests, i...

*I just got started then.... * "Outage leaves 370 million without power in India" by Ravi Nessman | Associated Press, July 31, 2012 NEW DELHI — A *power failure* cut service to 370 million people in nor...

Masked gunmen armed with automatic rifles and weapons mounted on vehicles have killed 13 border guards in an attack on a checkpoint along the Egyptian border with Gaza and Israel, a senior Egyptian securi...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER REGION at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 11:28:00 UTC Sunday 5th August 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) East from ...

Phys Peter Dizikes It is a central worry of many Americans: not having enough money to live comfortably in old age. Now an innovative paper co-authored by an MIT economist shows that a large portion of A...

Still thinking State. If Barack Obama is re-elected, he'll presumably have to fill an opening for Secretary of State. Do you have a candidate? Anyone you really don't want to see? Also: if she would take ...

------------------------------ *Friday’s Jobs Report: More Lies From “our” Big Brother* ------------------------------ August 4, 2012 | Original here In his report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ lates...

Earlier we saw that Tuesday is primary-day for Dr. Syed Taj in MI-11. Of course that means it's primary day for all the candidates running in Michigan, including Blue America-endorsed Trevor Thomas, who'...

First, I want everyone to be aware that I have again come under fire for my articles... In a very disturbing email that I received the other day, an individual who writes some very good reports that I hav...

*(CNN) -- Three suspected terrorists arrested last week in what Spanish officials call one of their largest operations against al Qaeda appear to have been interested in targeting a Gibraltar shopping mall...

America's drought has forced traffic closures on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Arkansas and in Mississippi it's not even knee deep in places. *"It looks like a coastline out there," said Reynold...

*(Reuters) - Greece's latest fiscal and reform pledges may be enough to convince international lenders weary after years of broken promises to keep Athens hooked to a 130 billion euro lifeline, but the ba...

"Flooding, mudslides kill at least 26 in Japan" July 16, 2012 TOKYO — Thousands of people in southern Japan ­remained cut off Sunday by *floods and mudslides* ­triggered by torrential rains that have *kill...

Several wildfires raging in Oklahoma in America have forced hundreds of people to leave their homes. Firefighters have battled to control the blazes in areas already affected by severe drought due to sum...

*Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures have raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island and forcing the evacuatio...

*(CNN) -- At least seven people, including a gunman shot by a police officer, have been killed in an attack on worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, polic...

*The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says that the UK economy will contract by 0.5 per cent this year and then grow by 1.3 per cent in 2013 and by 2.4 per cent in 2014. * NIESR s...

*HOMES were evacuated and several families had to be rehomed as flooding hit Jedburgh town centre on Sunday following torrential rain across south-west Scotland.* Jedburgh high street resembled a river b...

*Turkey's security forces have killed as many as 115 Kurdish rebels during a major security offensive over the past two weeks, the country's interior minister said Sunday.* Idris Naim Sahin said the rebe...

There aren't many American journalists today who can hold a candle to Rachel Maddow. She's aggressive, fearless and relentless - perfect qualities for exposing a charlatan like Mitt Romney. Visit NBCN...

*It's a photograph in my printed paper that you never saw on the web*: "CRASH KILLS 16 IN KASHMIR -- A policeman looked at the wreckage of a truck crash in a gorge near Pappad Morh in Sambia district that ...

Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit? If providing material assistance to al-Qaeda is illegal under the National Defence Authorization Act (2012)...

*Juno star Ellen Page is being terrorised on Twitter by a crazed fan who has threatened to kill her, it has been reported. * The Canadian star has apparently asked Los Angeles Police Department to investi...

Police in Oak Creek, Wisc., outside Milwaukee, say they're trying to determine if there was more than one gunman who opened fire inside a Sikh temple today, injuring many. Officials say an officer was sho...

Tripod This document caused quite a stir when it was discovered in 1977. Dated 4/1/67, and marked "DESTROY WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED", this document is a stunning testimony to how concerned the CIA was over i...

* Four teenagers are recovering in hospital after being shot in Merseyside on Saturday night.* Three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old were injured in the same attack, which happened in Akenside Street, Boot...

Anyone looking for the ugly face of Christianity need look no further than Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Grace Baptist Church decided to respond to the construction of a mosque by erecting 13 crosses al...

*Inflation adjusted gold price 1720 - 2012.* Website for this image According to Thomas Pascoe, in his Daily Telegraph blog on 11 July 2012, *the price of gold has been manipulated.‎* *1.* With the dolla...

* Reports are coming out of Oak Creek that at least four people have been killed and possibly dozens of others have been shot at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin at 7512 S. Howell Ave.* The Journal Sentinel o...

Anthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* The news surrounding GMO crops continues to get further and further outlandish as the crops are increasingly mutated and sprayed with a medley of harsh pesticides, her...

*Radioactive cesium likely from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was detected last year in a survey of ocean waters and fish off Niigata, Shizuoka, and Iwate prefectures, the government announced on Aug. 3....

*TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A typhoon with gusts of up to 126 kilometers per hour was approaching Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the prefecture and nea...

*BEIJING—China summoned a U.S. diplomat to refute a State Department accusation that Beijing is hampering diplomatic efforts to defuse long-simmering tensions over the disputed South China Sea.* The Fore...

Nuclear energy, state efforts slammed at Fukushima hearing. The Asahi Shimbun http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208020064 [Excerpted] A farmer who used to live in Namie, near the c...

*... and "I don't care" is in charge of statistics.* *Contributor: YYC* *A week with the unemployed*A family member sent me this link to a hilarious, but too accurate take-off on Abbot and Costello's "*Wh...

Several decades ago we cut out the middleman and settled down to an existence where "because I can" leads directly to "so I shall." What has fallen into desuetude was what once existed between the two,...

*(Reuters) - At least one gunman opened fire during morning services on Sunday at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and remained on the loose inside the temple, possibly holding hostages, according to...

"I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing." - Sydney Brenner. "Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecu...

Daniel Ellsberg, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Bradley Manning Support Network are asking for our help. Please sign the petition to free Bradley Manning, and share it as widely as you can.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is reporting that multiple people, an undetermined number between 8 and 20, have been injured in a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., just south of Milwa...

Japan's debris team inspects Oregon coast NHK http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120805_91.html [Excerpted]A Japanese survey team has inspected a beach in Oregon and collected debris from last year's ...

*The family of a missing 12-year-old girl are at their "wits' end" as police grow increasingly concerned for her welfare.* Tia Sharp was last seen leaving her grandmother's home in New Addington, southea...

*Police are investigating after a 20-year-old woman was sexually assaulted as she walked home in south Manchester, in an attack believed to be linked to several others in the area. * The attack occurred a...

*Bandar Bush: Back from the dead? * *"The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated." * I don't know what to make of this. Veterans Today (Gordon Duff): *"Breaking: Bandar Bush – Saudi Intel Chi...

[image: The dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, outlined in red, were far smaller than those in 2011 when measured at the end of July 2012. Red dots indicate stations for which the bottom-water oxygen conc...

*A photo is worth a thousand words*: "Floods follow drought in North Korea" Associated Press, July 31, 2012 [image: People waited on the roof of a house Monday in Anju, one of the North Korean cities hard...

*It's all for one as fallen New Orleans Saints have singular goal to stand together in wake of BountyGate sanctions ~NY Daily News* ~Photo by: Rusty Costanza/AP *Saints Nation: Willie Roaf Enshrined Into H...

*Literally and figuratively*: "US military apologizes for handcuffing Korean citizens" July 09, 2012 SEOUL — The top US military commander in South Korea *apologized* Sunday for an incident last week du...

For more than a quater century, NASA Space Laboratory director James Hansen has led the effort to warn the world about the fact of global warming. Now, Hansen has created another stir across the world with...

By Capt. Fogg If some day someone erects a cenotaph somewhere in the arid and polluted desert that used to be called the United States of America; some inscription marking two vast and trunkless legs of ...

*They must not be toeing the line because it's been ignored for so long*. "Group alleges atrocities in Myanmar" Associated Press, August 02, 2012 SITTWE, Myanmar — A human rights group said Myanmar *govern...

[image: A horse tries to escape a wildfire burning in Slaughter, Oklahoma, 3 August 2012. The horse was eventually rescued. Jerry Laizure/ Norman Transcript] By MARC SANTORA 4 August 2012 Firefighters...

"America loves 'winners'. You can be a porn-star banging golfer, gambling basketball player who gets his father killed because of debts or a rapist boxer who eats human ears. Bottom line is that if you ca...

Texas has been been doing more of the same standardized testing and expecting different results (see Einstein's definition of insanity) for 32 years now, and the children of the Lone Star state are as poor...

*"a test case for how a rising China will deal with the world — through threats and coercion or according to international legal norms."* *In other words, will they do it our way or another way? * "Clinto...

An authoritative US military source told debkafile Sunday, Aug. 5 that the American armed forces are standing ready for war with Iran. Without going into the thorny question of who should lead the operati...

In the spring, it became clear that Quebec was experiencing what -- in my youth -- we called a "generation gap." Konrad Yakabuski writes, in today's *Globe an Mail,* that the kids in the street will def...

I suppose that my skin is thin in places. But it's pretty fucking thick in other places. What I hate is the inability of some people to put things into some sort of context. Here's an imaginary scenario: ...

*Let's start with a bad leak*: "Ex-CIA agent to face charges in leak" Associated Press, July 21, 2012 ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge rejected claims Friday from a *former CIA officer*that he is the victim of ...

What a joy it was to see Billy Payne (one of my favorite piano men), Paul Barrere and Little Feat last night at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro. The crowd was beyond adoring and enthusiastic, and although the...

*Power grids, communications and satellites could be knocked out by a massive solar storm in the next two years, scientists warn. * Experts say the sun is reaching a peak in its 10-year activity cycle, pu...

The last time, which was also the first time he won, Bob Corker ran to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Senate, his Democratic opponent was notorious corporate shill and faux-Democrat Harold Ford, Jr. Nat...

*(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto churned across the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, regaining some strength even as forecasters expect it to grow more powerful and emerge as a Category 1 hurricane in the next f...

*(CNN) -- Fighting between Kurdish rebels and government troops in southeastern Turkey killed more than a dozen people over the weekend, according to the semi-official Anatolia news agency. * Six soldiers...

*Just further evidence that the AmeriKan media is not to be believed.* "Fabrications acknowledged, a bestseller is withdrawn" by Joseph P. Kahn | Globe Staff, August 01, 2012 The Harvard Book Store in C...

Janet Phelan *Activist Post* The petition to determine title in the conservatorship of Lois Risse will be heard at 10:30 am in Department S16P (Hangin Judge Welch's court) this coming Thursday, August ...

*(CNN) -- A standoff loomed Sunday between Syrian rebels and government forces near Aleppo as the battle for control of the most populous city intensified and the regime deployed heavy weapons to drive out...

With sanctions and talks – and a big stick in the background – the United States and its allies are trying to curtail Tehran’s nuclear programme. Australia is playing its part. Canberra recently blocked a ...

Nicholas West *Activist Post* The era of Big Data is upon us. Major corporations in the areas of advertising, social media, defense contracting, and computing are forming partnerships with government a...

*Scores of jellyfish that caused more than 1,000 people to seek medical treatment for painful stings in the Costa Del Sol in July have returned to several beaches this week.* All along the Malaga coast o...

Just say it: the pro-Chick Fil A protesters are HOMOPHOBIC. It's not a "free speech" issue because no one was ever saying Chick Fil A doesn't have a right to free speech! Everyone AGREES that everyone else...

Reporting on the revisions to teacher evaluations in DC public schools, Valerie Strauss makes a key observation: "When Rhee set the percentage at 50 percent back in 2009, after spending millions of dollar...

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Actually had some free time today, so I went out to try my hand at some bug pics. Enjoy. Taiwan has a tremendous variety of butterflies in leaf camo. Striking, beautiful, and a tribute to the creative po...

*An evangelist who kicks followers in the face, claiming his violence will cure them of cancer, is to tour Britain this month – but his proposed visit has provoked outrage and demands that he be banned fr...

Transform Now Three http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com. Peace Activists Close Nuclear Facility, Cause Historic Security Breachby Nathan Schneider In the early morning on Saturday, July 28, three...

*Corn knocked down by Soala.* Longtime readers will remember this case. First a bit of background from one of the Taipei Times pieces today: Ten defendants, including Shieh and Hsu Hung-chang (許鴻章), owne...

*US police are hunting a possible arsonist after dozens of homes were destroyed by wildfires in Oklahoma.* Fifteen fires, spread over more than 50,000 acres across the state, have destroyed around 100 bu...

The Syrian Army has uncovered a mass grave in the suburbs of Damascus. The grave is the first such mass grave to be discovered, but will certainly not be the only one. Imagine if it had been the terrorist...

*A British safari pilot imprisoned in Africa on charges of using black magic to commit mass murder has told of his joy at being freed after a riot in the jail.* David Simpson was the only inmate remainin...

*Caged behind the perspex panes of a cramped Moscow courtroom cell, the three young Russian women huddle together in dejected and fearful silence as a stern-faced woman prison warden, a 3ft wooden trunche...

Woody Harrelson I'm An American Tired Of American Lies THOUGHTS FROM WITHIN by Woody Harrelson . *I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation Sure I have human for...

*Image: Victim: Carol Manley was seriously injured when a concrete block was thrown at her car from another bridge over the A12* A van driver was lucky to escape with his life after mindless thugs threw a...

*A new television documentary will claim Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused teenage girls while at the height of his fame in the Seventies. * The programme, based on research by a former Surrey police office...

*Intelligent and inquisitive, chimpanzees have always been able to communicate with man.* But this heartbreaking video shows just how desperate this chimp is to be understood and to be let out of his cag...

*British officials are secretly equipping Syrian rebel groups with satellite phones in a bid to topple President Bashar al-Assad. * The supply of the latest generation of handsets is part of the Foreign O...

*Two airplanes came dangerously close to one another at a Detroit airport on Friday, just days after hundreds of air passengers narrowly avoided a massive mid-air collision when three U.S. commuter jets c...

*President Obama struck out with Turkey this week after the White House released a photo showing the leader of the free world holding a baseball bat while talking on the phone with the Turkish prime minis...

At UN, More Than One Third of the World Refuses to Endorse the Saudi-Qatari Call for Open Season on Syria; Mass Strikes in Saudi and Bahrain; Still No Sign of Bandar. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV - ...

*Iconic music festival Lollapalooza was shut down this afternoon after powerful thunderstorms swept into Chicago.* Around 100,000 fans were evacuated to shelters which had been set up in underground park...

*Two men have been arrested for filming up the skirts of more than a dozen women at supermarkets in an upscale Connecticut suburb.* Rodolfo Tamaniz-Cruz was arrested on Friday for allegedly using his cell...

*A pregnant Florida teenager has gone missing after informing the father of her unborn child that the baby was a girl. * Morgan Martin, 17, was last seen on July 25 in St. Petersburg, Florida after leavin...

* The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Nethe...

*(Reuters) - Israel is upgrading its Arrow II ballistic missile shield in a U.S.-backed "race" against Iran, Syria and other regional enemies, a senior Israeli defense official said on Sunday.* The new "...

*(Reuters) - Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court on Tuesday, a person familiar ...

*(FT) The Obama administration is tip-toeing towards closer links with the Free Syrian Army with the White House allowing US intelligence agencies to share information about troop movements with some oppo...

*North Korea said 400 people were missing and about 212,000 were left homeless following heavy rains and floods that lasted through July. * The floods killed 169 people and injured 144, while destroying mo...

*China's foreign ministry has called in a senior US diplomat to express "strong dissatisfaction" at remarks by the US state department raising concerns over tensions in the disputed South China Sea, in th...

*A suicide bomber struck at a wake in Yemen's southern city of Jaar overnight, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more including the leader of a local group fighting al-Qaida linked militants,...

*Heavy fighting continues unabated in Syria's second city Aleppo, as fears grow that the army will launch a full-scale assault within days.* A rebel commander on the ground told Reuters his fighters were ...

Members of the Calgary Centre Conservative Constituency Association puzzle over nomination papers presented by would-be candidates. Alberta political insiders may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: CPC ...

*The Syrian army claims it has seized the last rebel-held strongholds in the capital, Damascus, as regime forces continue to bombard the northern city of Aleppo.* A brigadier general, who did not give hi...

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